THE LEDGER.
THDRLOW S. CARTER,
ED1TOK AND MANAUEK.
1MUED WKJD.1KSOAY AND SATURDAY
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1904.[
VB80RIPTI0N tO PEP TEAR
NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
ALTON B. PAKKER,
of New York.
For Vice-President,
HENRY G. DAVIS,
ot West Virginia.
Impeach Board,
Shouts Tillman
Declares That the Diipensary
Law Mnst be Reformed
O 1 i .. / 1 Ml VT
opeciai 10 vjrreenviiie i>ews.
Gaffuey Oct. 22.?Senator
Tillman spoke to a largo audience
in tho coart house today on temperance,
dispensary, prohibition
or license. Tho court house was'
crowded to standing room only.
Although the crowd wan lurge ti e
best of order prevailed probably
due to the fact thut the dispensary
was closed.
Tho Senator's address was not
what fcieadyocates of the dispensary
had hoped for. He argued
that tko dispensary law needs reforming.
He told wherein he
thought the law could be improv
cd. He iso pposed to the monthly
purchase of lixoors and thinks
a change should be made in the
control.
He also stated that he could
find no law for the establishment
of the beer dispensaries and thinks
the board of Control should be
impeached for its negligence in
enforcement of the law.
Ker. F. C. Hickaon was called
on by Senator Tillman to join him
in a debate on the subject which
was rather heated, but fair. Mr.
Hickson made some excellent
points and pointed out the inconsistency
ot the Senator's argument.
Relative Positiois
Still Unchange.
Armies Confronting Eacb Other
On the Shakhe River.?
Celd Causes Great
Suffering.
So far as the dispatches from
the far east show, there has been
no change in relative positions of
the hostile armies confronting
each other on the line of the
Shakhe river. There is an un
confirmed report that a Russian
force of 20,000 men has been
oncentrated at Kuutu pass, 20
milos northeast of Liao Tang,
which may he indicative of it
likely to strike bin next blow.
Upwards of 20,000 of the Rus ian
soldier* wounded in the battle
of the Shukhe have leached
Harbin, Cold weather is canting
suffering to the armies Jn the
icld, atlhougk it has wrought an
improvement in the conditions
for the movement of troops. A
report has reached St. Petersburg
but lacks confirmation, that the
Port Arthur fleet has left its un
ohorago in the harbor and lias
taken un a position in th? r<..wi
tend.
.Notice to the l'ublic.
1 will hold (ill inquests in the
county. Phono to my residence
at Pleasant Hill for me when
needed.
J. Montgomery Caskey,
ept. 20?tf Coroner L C.
JUDGE WATTS'SCHARGE i
ON THE MORRISON
LYNCHING.
\
(concluded trom 4th pa?*.) 1
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didn't pet the words out of his ,
month until four men nailed him (
and carried him off to jail, aud
that ended that. \
" better bl dead."
Now, a man had better be dead
than afraid to do his duty, and he
had better resign when he gets
so that he ia too cowardly to perform
the duties of his office. As
long as you have a sheriff like
the raau you have got here I will
guarantee if he ever gets his
hands on a prisoner there isn't
going to be any lynching, and if
there is there is going to be somebody
hurt, and they have got to
go over his dead body. Then his
friends are going to have something
to say about it, so you are
going to have civil war right then
and there, and you will luaugurate
a bloody feud that will last
for a hundred years.
Now, gentlemen, I have giveu
you my views on this matter. My
conscience is clear and clean on
that. I canuot enforce the law.
The only thing a judge can do is
to tell the grand jury and petit
jury what the law is. I can't
tell you what .the facts are. We
have eight fearless solicitors in
this State. They all do their
duty. They will hew to the line,
let the chips fall where they will,
aud, as a general rule, the jurien
in this State do their duty fairly.
Now and then they make a mistake,
now and theu the solicitor
makes a mistake; the Judge
makes mistakes sometimes, but,
as a rule, justice is properly administered.
It has already been
intimated that nothing has come
out of this case; it w ill just die a j
natural death. They say, "if
there ever wss a case of justifiable
lynching this is one." There
isn't any lynching justifiable, aud
men who engage in a lynching
are guilty of murder, aud the
man who had them in charge, although
he may not have actively
participated in it, as the men who
did it.
"SAUL OF TAR8U8."
According to my recolleotion
of the Bible in the stoning of
Stephen there is no evidence to
show that Saul of Tarsus took any
active part in, but when they
got through with the job they
cast his clothes at hisfeet and he,
stahdinsr there. cnnaAntad. Th?r?
is not a case in Sooth Oarolina
where a man gets in the hande of
an officer of the court and a mob
gets him that the officer did not
connive and wink at it. He is as
guilty as the people who did the
work. The Governor is doing
the best he can to put the lynching
down. They telegraphed him
for militia. He sent them and
they hung the fellow before the
militia got there. The sheriff
can't be everywhere and J the
Governor couldn't get the mi litia
there in time. The slier.ff is not
10 oiame in thin matter because
he did his jevei best, hired an
engine and took an expensive
ride.
The Governor's conscience is
clear, he did his duty and sent a
military company theie Who is
responsible*? "Where was Moees
when the light went out?" 1 see
by the papers they cut the light
off down there. Who cut that
light off? Now, gentlemen, the
law of the State is this: This is
the only case in which the solic
iter is bound by law to inaugurate
the prosecution, and the solicitor
can't do anything unless the
grand jury help him. They are
the right arm of the court. They
have as much power in this court
as 1 have. Whenever they come
into court and make a presentment
I take charge. When you
take the hills and go into your
room you are a co ordinate
branch of the court. 1 have no
authority over you when you get
in your grand jury room. You
are a law to y uraelves there.
Now this ih the on y cane where
the Jaw requireR the solicitor to
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inaugurate the prosecution. It
lues not make it incumbent on
dim to go down there and ewear
diit warrants though. If the
people in a county where 1 live
or where yon live want to live
among murderers and violators
of law and not bring them to
justice 1 am not going to wear
crepe on my hat.
TBI LAW.
Now here is the statute: "In
the case of any prleonar lawfnily
in the charge, custody or control
of any officer, Slate, county or
municipal, being seised and taken
from said officer through his
negligence; permission or connivance,
by a mob or other unlawful
assemblage of persons,
and at their hauds suffer bodily
iri/dlnnon raw rlno f K iKa ??*?/-!
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, upon true bill
found, shall be deposed from his
office, pendiug his trial, and upon
conviction shall forfeit his
oflice, and shall, unless pardoned
by the Governor, be ineligible to
hold auy oflice of trust or proGt
within this State. It shall be
the duty of the prosecuting attorney
within whose circuitor coun
ty the ofFence may be committed
to forthwith institute a prosecution
against said officer, who shall
be tried in such county in the
same circuit other than the one
in which the offence was committed
as the Attorney General may
lect. The fees and mileage of
all matorial wituessea, both for
the State and the defence, shall
bo paid by the State Treasurer
on a certificate issued by the
clerk, and signed by the presiding
Judge, showing the amount
of said fee due the witness."
Now gentlemen, you see under
that if any prisoner is lawfully
in the custody or under the control
of any officer, whether he is
a State officer or county officer,
or municipal officer, that means,
gentlemen, a town officer, and he
is seized and taken away from
that officer through his negligence
or permission '<#r connivance by
a mob or otlir^ unlawful aSsem
blage present, and 'at their liandt
suffer violence or death the ofli
cer shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor. Now, 1 charg<
you as matter of law, if Morrisot
killed Mr. Floyd then any office]
there had a right to arrest hia
without any. warrant. If he com
mitted a known felony in the ey<
of the law, and if that offioer wai
a State offioer or ooaniy officer
or an officer under the town gov
eminent, and he had in posses
sion Morrison, and if by his ne<
gligence or by his permission, 01
by his connivance, he let a mol
or unlawful assemblage take bin
away, he is guilty of a misde
meauor, and if you find a tru<
bill and the petit jury convicti
him then he cau't hold any more
offices in South Carolina unlest
the Governor allows him to do s<
by pardon. That is the only cast
that the solicitor is bound t<
prosecute in. The statute requir
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en mm to inaugurate itie prose
cut ion in this case. Where a
warrant is sworn out and th<
grand jury preseut a man it ii
the duty of the solicitor to taftf
charge of the case and prosecuti
it, but it is not his duty to g?
around and hunt up witnessei
and have warrants sworn out,
This the only statute that I knovs
of in this State that reqeireR hirr
to inaugurate a prosecution
Now, gentlemen, I have not the
slightest doubt but what you wil
do your duty fearlessly and im
partially in this matter.
CABVOHXA.
$mn tte yfltiiXrtYMHiwIhiplw*
BROKE INTO Ills HOU^E.
S. Le Quinu of Cavendish, Vt.,
was robbed of his customary health
by invasion ofChronicConstipation
When Dr. King's New Life Pilli
broke into his house, his trooble
was arrested and now he's entirely
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cured. i ney re guaranteed to
cure. 25c at Crawford Bros., J.
F. Mickey & Co., and Ainder-r
hurk Pharmacy, Drug Stores,
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North, where he
in dress goods a
merous to menti
BRO"S
Being the preya
in those two shy
ed Cheviots and
shades. Our no
right up to the i
wish in that line
Jackets antl Caj
think the prettii
this market. A
preeiated and w
W e are still hi
1 clothing manuft
I more. Also A.
; lenburg & Co.,
r terns in browns
! call tor. All w
| we do not dress
isfied for any of
- We are still hai
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; our Lawns, Piqi
and make a pur
1 some price. J
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; past patronage t
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n inspection of
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CLOTHING
andling the cel<
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B. Kirschbaum
and other lines.
, grays and any
e ask is to give
you up, we wit
'our competitor!
idling the
rODMAN, and 3
e three of the b
anufactured. N<
;cided to sacrific
lies and Voils. s
chase for surely
ust received a
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linery Opening,
1 day. All the
Groceries of all
the inner man.
ind hoping for n
Yours
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CASTER 5
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lrned from the
e startling values
bargains too nu- *
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bought heavily
Cravinetts, Mixroadeloths
in all
t is complete and
thing you may
,ilor made Skirts,
lous line, and we. ,
. ever shown on
same will be apale.
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Co., and SnelBeautiful
patcolor
you maj
us a look, and if
I be perfectly sat3
to nave the sale.
DREW SELRY
est and strongest
at wishing to car:e
the prict on all
o come at once
K they will go at
i beautiful line of
Be sure to watch
first Wednesday
ladies are corkinds
and such
Thanking all for
iiore in the future,
to serve,
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